More and more intelligent and dynamic interactions can happen within today’s browsers and networks, when I visited the Digital Revolution at the Barbican in London last year, there was an audio piece by Zach Lieberman called Play The World, where you could play international radio-stations on a piano. Each key makes the system listen to radio around the world to find one playing that particular not, then feeds that radio station onto the speakers.

This mock up is from Zach Liberemans DevArt page with all of the information on from the project

Connections between live tweets and graphic interfaces have been around a long time, (visible tweets, tweetbeam, and more) but I discovered that those clever audio tinklers have also got tweets to play music!

Although The Listening Machine is no longer live it has archived a few excerpts from different times of the day and it makes for interesting listening as they do have their own tempo and feel…

So with some clever coding you can interact with live comments, this leads me with the question; could you do this with a physical interaction, with something like a kinect or a leap motion, so instead of a physical key, a gesture can control the trigger?